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Wall Street Continues Record-Setting Run

Reuters | Posted 05.17.2013 | Business

NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks continued their climb into uncharted territory on Friday, racking up the fourth week of gains in a row as e...

Learning From the (Not So Sad) Saga of Jeffrey Vinik

Dan Solin | Posted 05.14.2013 | Business
Dan Solin

Vinik earned enormous fees. He purchased the ultimate big boy toy, a professional hockey team, the Tampa Bay Lightning. He also is a minority investor in the Boston Red Sox. Clearly, Vinik was back on his game. Or was he?

Stock Market Back In Record Territory

AP | STEVE ROTHWELL | Posted 05.15.2013 | Business

NEW YORK — The stock market marched back into record territory Tuesday as investors seized on the latest encouraging news about the economy. Thi...

Stocks Plunge On Fake AP Tweet

Posted 04.23.2013 | Business

Stocks plunged for a few minutes Tuesday after the Associated Press sent out a tweet claiming there was an explosion at the White House. The tweet was...

America's CEO-To-Worker Pay Ratio Even Worse Than You Thought

Posted 04.15.2013 | Business

When the S&P 500 index soared to a record high earlier this month, everyone from investors and CEOs were reaping the benefits. Everyone, that is, e...

Major Stock Indexes Hit Record Highs

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2013 | Business

* S&P 500 breaks through intraday record shortly after open * Dow pops above 14,800 to set a fresh intraday record high ...

S&P 500 Soars To Highest Level Ever

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2013 | Business

NEW YORK, April 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. benchmark S&P 500 index on Wednesday rose to its highest level ever, breaking a record that had stood since Oc...

Dow Closes At Record High

AP | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business

NEW YORK -- The Dow Jones industrial average is closing at another record high, driven by a surge in materials companies. The Dow gained almost 60 po...

Cautiously Bullish

Michael Farr | Posted 04.04.2013 | Business
Michael Farr

As we have suggested many times over the past several months and years, stocks are increasingly viewed as a more attractive investment versus bonds. While this is not necessarily a bad thing, it is not necessarily an indicator of continued strength either.

Dow Takes Big Hit

AP | Posted 04.03.2013 | Business

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing broadly lower following weak reports on the U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 111 points, its w...

Dow Jones Touches Record High

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 04.03.2013 | Business

U.S. stocks closed at a record highs Tuesday after reports on auto sales and factory orders provided the latest evidence that the U.S. economy is stre...

Poor Folks Don't Care About the Stock Market Rally

Carl Gibson | Posted 04.01.2013 | Business
Carl Gibson

This evil system of organized robbery of the most vulnerable will only continue with the consent of us, the bottom 90 percent who can barely keep a roof over our head.

"Crucifying" the "Other"

Eric E. Sterling | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics
Eric E. Sterling

Imagine how many more customers companies like Wal-Mart, McDonalds, General Motors, Amazon.com, Ford, Foot Locker, H & M, or Ben & Jerry's might have if the tens of millions of people with convictions could get jobs and not have to live on food stamps!

ALL-TIME HIGH

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2013 | Business

NEW YORK, March 28 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 set a record closing high on Thursday, finishing a fifth consecutive month of gains to extend a four-year l...

S&P 500 Hits Record High

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.28.2013 | Business

More than four years after the financial crisis began, the broadest U.S. stock-market index is back at a record high. Unfortunately, the rest of t...

Dow Winning Streak Contineus

Reuters | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business

NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks edged up on Wednesday, with the Dow rising for the ninth straight session to another record and the S&P 5...

Dow Records New Two-Year Milestone

AP | Posted 03.12.2013 | Business

NEW YORK -- The Dow is logging its longest winning streak in two years – barely. A tiny gain gave the Dow Jones industrial average its eighth s...

Dow Breaks Another Record

Reuters | Posted 03.08.2013 | Business

(Reuters) - Stocks closed out a historic week with another day of gains on Friday, as the Dow hit yet another closing high on a payrolls report that s...

Dow Does It Again

Reuters | Posted 05.06.2013 | Business

* Dow up 0.3 pct, S&P 500 up 0.1 pct, Nasdaq off 0.1 pct * After Tuesday's record close, Dow hits intraday lifetime high ...

Sequester Who?, Says Wall Street

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2013 | Business

* U.S. manufacturing gains offset weak overseas data * Investors see potential stock gains despite U.S. budget cuts * C...

Stocks Flat; No New Record For Dow

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2013 | Business

* DJ Transportation Average hits intraday record high * S&P 500 posts 4th straight month of gains * J.C. Penney, Groupon...

Bernanke Comments Give Boost To Stock Market

Reuters | Posted 04.28.2013 | Business

* S&P 500 bounces back from biggest daily drop since Nov. 7 * Possible stalemate in Italy remains a concern * Home Depot...

S&P 500 See Worst Day Since November

Reuters | Posted 02.25.2013 | Business

NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 suffered its worst decline since Nov. 7 on Monday in a sharp reversal from initial gains as elections in Ital...

S&P 500 Posts First Weekly Loss Of The Year

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 02.22.2013 | Business

-- Strong earnings from big U.S. companies pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a rare triple-digit gain Friday, but the S&P 500 index still po...

Fed Minutes Scare Stock Market

AP | MATTHEW CRAFT | Posted 04.22.2013 | Business

NEW YORK — The stock market posted its biggest loss this year on news that Federal Reserve officials suggested the central bank scale back its e...